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Self-Published $0.99 Title Rockets up Best-Seller List

For just the second time since August when we launched the Digital Book World Ebook Best-Seller List, a $0.99 title has broken into the top ten overall. The last time was Nelson Demille’s Plum Island (Hachette), a 2003 book which benefited from the price drop plus some on-site promotion.

This time, a title from a self-published author is making wake. Stop the Wedding by Stephanie Bond (published by NeedtoRead, a publisher that seems only to publish books by Bond) has shot up the best-seller list since its release on Nov. 11. It’s only for sale on Amazon but hasn’t seemed to benefit yet from any additional promotion. No doubt this title will stay near the top of the Kindle best-seller list as it was featured on the Kindle homepage Dec. 1 and could stay there for several days or weeks.

Meanwhile, most of the rest of the books in the top ten are being sold above $10. The average price of a top-25 ebook best-seller edged up this week to $9.79 from a three-month low of $9.45.

The Perfect Hope: Book Three of the Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy (The Inn Trilogy)

Nora Roberts

Penguin

$ 9.99

-4

12 (9)

Fifty Shades Freed: Book Three of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

E. L. James

Random House

$ 9.99

-3

13 (22)

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

$ 7.05

+9

14 (n/a)

My Kind of Christmas (Virgin River Series: #18) :

Robyn Carr

Harlequin

$ 4.00

New

15 (10)

Reflected in You: A Crossfire Novel

Sylvia Day

Penguin

$ 9.99

-5

16 (11)

Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)

Suzanne Collins

Scholastic

$ 5.99

-5

17 (16)

Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

Suzanne Collins

Scholastic

$ 5.99

-1

18 (24)

Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles)

Jeffrey Archer

Macmillan

$ 2.99

+6

19 (14)

Fifty Shades Darker: Book Two Of The Fifty Shades Trilogy

E. L. James

Random House

$ 9.99

-5

20 (21)

Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

E. L. James

Random House

$ 9.99

+1

21 (n/a)

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife

Eben Alexander III M.D.

Simon & Schuster

$ 9.99

New

22 (13)

Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel

Sylvia Day

Penguin

$ 9.99

-9

23 (23)

Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

Bill O’Reilly; Martin Dugard

Macmillan

$ 12.99

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24 (25)

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Simon & Schuster

$ 9.99

+1

25 (n/a)

Safe Haven

Nicholas Sparks

Hachette

$ 7.99

New

* Previous week’s list rank in parentheses.
** Price reflects minimum price across all retailers throughout the week. Price may vary between retailers and may change throughout the week. Contact Iobyte Solutions for more information on e-book pricing.
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